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UKRAINE _ A PART OF EUROPE?

Well, at least it is in the opinion of the thousands and thousands  of people who participated at a big demonstration in Kiev today. Between 50.000 (according to local sources) and 100.000 (according to Russian sources ;-)) participated in this "March for Europe". For me, as somebody from a EU-country, some of the slogans sounded, well, at least, quite strange... If it is a good starting point for  EU-Membership if you do it under slogans like "Our Homeland" (meaning Ukraine, not the EU)? Somehow it seems to me that the people somehow don't have enough information or simple have not understood the basics ideas of the EU...